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Definitions: CARTHUSIAN |
CARTHUSIANAdjective1. Pertaining to the Carthusian. Noun1. A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086. |
Date "CARTHUSIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer; canon regular, canon secular; Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites; Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite; Augustinian; Gilbertine; Austin Friars, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars; Bonhomme, Carthusian, Benedictine, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine; Templar, Hospitaler; Bernardine, Lorettine, pillarist, stylite. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CARTHUSIAN |
| English words defined with "CARTHUSIAN": Charterhouse, Chartreux. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CARTHUSIAN": Boz. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CARTHUSIAN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CARTHUSIAN" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
carthusian | 12 |
carthusian monk | 7 |
carthusian order | 2 |
carthusian horse | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CARTHUSIAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | монах-картузианец. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mnich (coenobite, friar, monk, religious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | karthauzi szerzetes, karthauzi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | certosino. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Carthoosagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arthusiancay cartuxo. (various references) картезианец. (various references) kartuzijanac. (various references) cartujo. (various references) kartesiansk (cartesian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-i-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: anarchist, cantharis. | |
-2 letters: acanthus, archaist, citharas, curtains, haircuts. | |
-3 letters: acanthi, acrasin, anarchs, anchusa, antiars, anticar, anurias, arnicas, artisan, canthus, carinas, caritas, chaunts, cithara, curtain, haircut, incrust, narcist, nutrias, runtish, satanic, saurian, shaitan, staunch, tarnish, tsarina, unhairs, uranias, urchins. | |
-4 letters: acarus, acinar, acinus, actins, airths, anarch, antiar, antics, anuria, anuric, arhats, arista, arnica, arshin, ashcan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-i-n-r-s-t-u" | |
+3 letters: hallucinators, haruspication, uncharismatic. | |
+4 letters: antirheumatics, authenticators, chateaubriands, haruspications, ichthyosaurian. | |
+5 letters: ichthyosaurians. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 52 54 48 55 53 49 41 4E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. - .... ..- ... .. .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01010010 01010100 01001000 01010101 01010011 01001001 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A R T H U S I A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0052 0054 0048 0055 0053 0049 0041 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37355254425553433548 |
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